148 S O I L - P R O C E S S. 20. 



againfl the Norfolk hufbandmen, confidered 

 merely as fuch •, for the Norfolk foil in gene- 

 ral is fufficiently abforbcnt to require neither 

 ridge nor furrow. 



But there are patches, efpeclally on the fides 

 of the fwells, and on the margins of the mea- 

 ddws, which are too retentive to admit of fuch 

 management ; and there 2iXG: fofne few hufband- 

 men, who are fufficiently attentive to furface- 

 drains for carrying off the fuperfluous rain- 

 v/ater ; or, if that be found infufficient, have 

 rccourfe to 



VI. Under-draining. — This, however, is 

 a pradlice which is not of long {landing in the 

 Diflrid: ; but may, I make no doubt, be found 

 highly ufeful to many parts of it. 



Under-draining has, hitherto, been chiejfly, I 

 believe, done with wood; there being no Itoncs 

 in the Diflridt ; except a few fmall flints ga- 

 thered off the land ; and except fea-ftones up- 

 on the coaft ; — either of which would, if pro- 

 perly ufed, be preferable to wood. 



For 



